10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Years ago, I became a wildlife volunteer and advocate because of a cat who caught a bird. The wildlife center was an hour away if I was lucky. That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. I’d rescued birds before, but this time I had to face the wildlife center with a personal connection to the carnage.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

When news later reached our little town (likely through a newspaper) that the bird-killing chemical was to be banned, my environmental activism was born. Images of wildlife coated in toxic goo haunted me; particularly the birds. Destroy the habitats – destroy the wildlife. Public lands at risk. Image by NPCA. Image by USFWS. .

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Lucky him, right? Though he ended up dead anyway.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

Wildlife rehabilitators constantly receive lost racing pigeons who are starving, riddled with lice, and suffering from coccidia, trichinosis, or worms. I doubt anyone would want to begin their wedded life or celebrate the memory of a loved one by killing one or more gentle, lovely birds, however unintentionally.

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Critter News

AUGUST 29, 2008

The wolves suffer needlessly because hunters simply wound them more often then not firing from an airplane. Here is a video from Defenders of Wildlife that shows the method (it's under 3 minutes). I'm not an absolutist on this point. Doing it from low flying aircraft, however, is just barbaric. This is what Palin has pushed for.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

TE is practiced by state and federal wildlife managers; but municipal TE needs to happen if the annihilation of native wildlife is to be significantly slowed. Ted not only did not call on anyone to poison cats but he pointed out that Tylenol is not registered for use in killing cats. Pretty standard. ” Wait, what? .”

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The only wildcat I found was illegally killed by hunters during closed season. Construction has always been prohibited and the undisturbed expanse of Beljarica has always served as a major spawning, nesting, resting and foraging area for a multitude of wildlife. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, this is just a small town and only one person was killed due to injuries suffered. Kelly Preheim was talking about the large numbers of Snowy Owls on the nearby National Wildlife Refuge. There were 23 cows killed; some had to be shot up in trees where they were stuck. Chaos and insulation.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Not only did we not think about the impact of the Australian wildfires on wildlife, but we didn't see the AP story on our very own sidebar. While the scope of the wildlife devastation was still unclear, it was likely to be enormous, {Jon Rowdon, president of the rescue group Wildlife Victoria} said. We are losers.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

It's the largest civil penalty imposed under EU legislation in which wildlife protection is a condition for receiving funds from the EU's Single Farm Payment Scheme. His 2006 subsidy was docked by a third by the Scottish Government last month because of suspicions that pesticides found on his estate were being used to kill birds of prey.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife. Shifting Skies is a follow-up to the National Wildlife Federation’s January report, Wildlife in a Warming World. Get more National Wildlife Federation updates at NWF.org/News. I asked Douglas B. ” GL: Aha.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

Tell me, what happens if we rip away hunting when hunting protects more wildlife land in Africa than national parks? The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. I’m sorry.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

Even as a veteran wildlife rehabilitator, I could scarcely believe the sight before me. We all thought the kindest approach would be to end her suffering, but then…she raised her head and looked directly at me. But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

Alex, who publishes the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West , wants to share sincere feelings about a species near and dear to the hearts of many of us… I’m new to birding, and I’ve lived in urban areas for many years where the bird population is mainly crows and pigeons. It was still alive.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

And of course, shuttling wildlife to and fro, and contemplating their place in our lives and our place in theirs. Though she hadn’t managed to kill anyone yet, I wasn’t about to roll the dice on whether she really did have some kind of predator instinct. I followed his call, but so did Emily The Hunter.

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